Our Brick Factory team recently moved into a new office in the McPherson Square area of Washington, DC. Our new space was previously occupied by a law firm with an affinity for wood paneling, ship drawings and 80s style carpet. Thankfully, as part of our lease we were given the opportunity to completely gut the space and rebuild to our exact specification. ...
Continue ReadingLike all things that become popular and overused, there is a backlash against the once revered single page, long-scrolling bootstrap template website. It is safe to say that a good percentage of the design community is eager to bid it farewell. While I am as bored as my counterparts with the army of single page sites that all look pretty much exactly the same,...
Continue ReadingOne of the best improvements in Drupal 8 is the new configuration management system. This post explains how things have changed from Drupal 7, and provides a step-by-step walk of Drupal 8 configuration management.
Configuration in Drupal 7If you’ve spent much time site building or programming in Drupal 7,...
Continue ReadingA few weeks ago I wrote a post about changes we have made to our Brick Factory design process over the last few years. Check out the full piece if you have time, but the gist is that we haved moved away from designing pages and towards creating systems. We are trying to design overall styles and repeating elements that make up the pages,...
Continue ReadingFor most of the web’s short lifetime, the primary way to design a website has been to create wireframes and comps (design compositions) of a site’s key pages. Oversimplifying a bit, designers identify these key pages and essentially create pictures of what the pages look like when presented on the web. ...
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